| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 89 min.) : silent, black and white |
| Summary |
The first feature film by the director of Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein's Strike is a visual tour-de-force that employs dynamic editing and experimental camerawork to dramatize the saga of a bitterly-fought factory strike in 1903. Triggered by the suicide of a worker unjustly accused of theft, a strike is called by the laborers of a Moscow factory. The managers, owner, and Czarist government dispatch infiltrators in an attempt to break the workers' unity. Unsuccessful, they hire the police and, in the film's most harrowing and powerful sequences, the unarmed strikers are slaughtered in a brutal confrontation |
| Notes |
Title from title frames |
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1925 |
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This version produced by Kino Lorber Edu |
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Full screen (1.33:1) |
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"'Toward dictatorship'", a series of films on the workers' movement in Russia. First volume: Strike, in 6 parts." --Frame after title frame |
| Credits |
Camera, E. Tisse ; sets, Rakhals ; musical score compiled and performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra |
| Cast |
Performed by the First Workers' Theatre of Proletkult |
| Notes |
Silent film with intertitles in English; some signage in film in Russian, with English translation; accompanying music |
| Subject |
Strikes and lockouts -- Russia -- History -- 20th century -- Drama
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Working class -- Russia -- Drama
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Strikes and lockouts.
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Working class.
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Russia.
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Internet videos.
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Silent films.
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Drama.
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History.
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Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Historical films.
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Historical films.
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Silent films.
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Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Internet videos.
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Films historiques.
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Films muets.
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Films de fiction.
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Vidéos sur Internet.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948, film director, screenwriter.
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Mikhin, Boris, 1879-1963, film producer.
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Pletnev, V., screenwriter.
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Aleksandrov, Grigoriĭ Vasilʹevich, 1903-1984, screenwriter.
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First State Film Factory, production company.
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First Workers' Theatre of Proletkult.
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Proletkulʹt (Literary organization : RSFSR)
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Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.
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Cinémathèque de Toulouse, presenter.
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Kino Lorber, Inc., film distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), publisher.
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